SES crews from interstate have arrived in New South Wales to help out in the clean up and emergency response. NSW SES has carried out 90 flood rescues and is preparing for a mammoth clean up. Spokesman Andrew Richards was talking to AM this morning....

The bushfire danger in the Greater Sydney region on Friday is rated very high, with the risk to the Southern Slopes, Eastern Riverina, Lower Central Western Plains and Southern Riverina classified as severe. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) is urging the public to prepare and be ...

The man who led the recovery efforts after last October's devastating bushfires in the New South Wales Blue Mountains says there are lessons to be learnt from how the State Government responded to the disaster....

Residents in two Blue Mountains communities say they are in a vulnerable situation because of the failure of two councils to agree on the upkeep of an access road. There is only one road in and out of Mount Wilson and Mount Irvine, while another road which connected the villages is impassable, ...

Residents displaced by the bushfirest which devestated parts of the Blue Mountains are frustrated by the delays in the official clean up. One of them, the Labor Senator Doug Cameron says the state and federal governments are treating affected residents like second class citizens. ...

The Rural Fire Service Commissioner has paid tribute to the pilot of a plane which crashed in rugged terrain while water-bombing a fire in southern New South Wales. David Black, 43, died when his Dromader aircraft crashed while fighting a fire at Wirritin in Budawang National Park, 40 kilometres ...

The Rural Fire Service has confirmed that a pilot died when his water-bombing aircraft crashed in southern New South Wales this morning. The RFS says the 43-year-old died when his water-bomber - thought to be a Dromader - went down west of Ulladulla. It is believed one of the plane's wings fell off ...